Re: Re[2]: [MacPerl] What am I missing?

[jwb@olympus.net (John W. Baxter)]

At 15:16 7/30/96, PVHP@LNS62.LNS.CORNELL.EDU wrote:
>>$LF = "\012";
>>$CR = "\015";
>>$DOSeol = "$CR$LF";
>>$MacEol = "$CR";
>>$UNIXeol = "$LF";
>
>Not that this is not excellent advice (I think it is) but I am curious: is
>there some reason not to use hexadecimal or decimal sets?

Nothing wrong with hex if you're sending me code.  I haven't worked on
machines where octal was sensible since around 1961 (PDP-1 (not a typo),
TX-0, and IBM 7094 <and on back to 704>).  OTOH, I worked on a decimal
machine which printed its hex by using the 6 characters which filled in
after the value 9 in the 4-bit digit form.  space was 12; spaces as
significant characters in memory dumps are unhandy (+, -, @ and whatever
else fit in there aren't nearly so bad).

   --John

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